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04 Mar 2015 12:22:56pm

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A fine essay indeed.

If you examine the entire philosophical and literary tradition of the West, including all of its religious and "theological" speculations, you will find that it is all an expression of the fruitless search for Truth & Reality.

An attempt to re-discover the intrinsic fullness of being which we all intuit(at the feeling heart) to be our Real and Eternal Condition.

Or put in another way a lament for the seeming absence of The Divine Conscious Light as the Matrix within which all of this emerges.

This lament became particularly noticeable after the European Renaissance when the focus of the culture at large shifted from that of contemplation of the idea of The Divine (as defined by Christianity), to the exclusive focus on the latent potentialities of the individual mortal human being, particularly that of high ranking or prominent males.

As time went on The Divine Light, and thus even the possibility of Divine Life was eliminated from the European cultural landscape and possibility.

Nietzsche thus famously and rightly declared that God is dead.

All that was left is the fear-saturated dreadfully sane normal every person, convicted of the entirely mortal meat-body "vision".

This situation was expressed or featured in all forms of Western art.

I would argue that this is particularly so with the novel which is the primary manifestation of the the culture of the left-brained word which now patterns the entire world, and by which we define our presumed sanity.

REAL INTELLIGENCE is tacit, or intrinsically wordless living existence.

Most of us cant even begin to imagine how one could possibly live without the constant flow of thinkety think think think.

But REAL life only begins when one has transcended the "mind forged manacles" (Blake) of the left-brained thinking mind. One thus becomes capable for the first time of Realizing and living the vision pointed to by Blake in these lines:

"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.

For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through narrow chinks of his cavern".

The cavern, trap or prison, created and tightly held in place by our left-brained mind forged manacles.

The very same cavern or trap alluded to in the image or metaphor of Plato's famous cave.